Ovid Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Simplicity, very rare in our age.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Stupidity, Age

  Ovid (2015). “The Offense of Love: Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2”, p.64, University of Wisconsin Pres

• All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

  Ovid

  Change, Nature, Age

• Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

  Ovid

  Mean, Love Is, Gold

• Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

  Ovid

  Yield, Age, Steps

• While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
  [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
  Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

• If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
  [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
  (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

  Ovid

  Love, Yield, Age

• That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

  Ovid

  Wrinkles, Years, Age

• Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

  Ovid

  Years, Feet, Age

• Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

  Ovid

  Age, Gold, Today

• How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

  Ovid

  Money, Thinking, Hands

• All-devouring time, envious age,
  Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
  Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

  Ovid

  Time, Age, Degrees

• Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Doors, Age

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